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SONGS OF THE EASTERN MARI
“SONGS OF THE EASTERN MARI” (“Ervel mariy muro-vlak”), a set of samples of the Mari folklore (Yoshkar-Ola, 1994). Compiled by G.G. Gadiatov. The collection includes materials from the folklore expedition of the 1990s by the Mari Research Institute of Language, Literature, and History to various districts...
SONAYIM
“SONAYIM”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. First registered by G.Z. Suleymanov from the quaray player G. Shamsutdinov in 1940 in Isyanbetovo village, Bayakskiy District, BASSR. It is published in the book “Bashkort khalk yirdary”. Further registration was made by K.F. Akhmetov. It has a playing takmak....
SOCIETY OF VIETNAMESE CITIZENS
SOCIETY OF VIETNAMESE CITIZENS is a social organization located in Bashkortostan. Founded in 2002 in Ufa to preserve spiritual and material culture, traditions, customs and folklore of the Vietnamese. Ufa held the Day of the Vietnamese community in 2006, the Days of culture of the Socialist Republic...
SOCIETY OF STUDYING BASHKIRIA
SOCIETY OF STUDYING BASHKIRIA was founded in Sterlitamak by the decree of CEC ASBR of February 16, 1922 as a Society of studying households, culture and history of Bashkiria at PC for education. In September of 1922 it merged with the Society for the study of the South Urals, moved to Ufa and was renamed...
SIX YEGETS
“SIX YEGETS”, Bashkir ethnic song, kyska-kuy. The variants of “S.y.” were registered by S.G. Rybakov in 1893 in Tashbulatovo village, Verhkneuralskiy District and published in “Music and songs of the Ural Muslims and their household description”. The melody has a dancing nature and square structure....
SILVER CORD
“SILVER CORD” (“Shiy kandyra”), i n t e r r e g i o n a l f e s t i v a l - c o m p e t i t i o n o f f o l k d a n c e o f E a s t e r n M a r i. It has been held in Kaltasinsky district since 2011 once every two years in order to preserve, develop, and promote the traditions...
SIGN
SIGN is a folklore genre, a saying that appeared as a result of long observations of natural phenomena, plant properties, animals, bird and insect behavior, which react to the change of weather in a particular way. In ancient times S. were an unwritten set of meteorological knowledge. The structure...
SIDOROVA Efrosiniya Sergeevna
SIDOROVA Efrosiniya Sergeevna (16.2. 1930–30.7.2018), folklorist. Candidate of Philology (1973). Her research is devoted to the study of Chuvash folklore. Author of approx. 100 research papers. One of the compilers of the collection “Chuvash folk art”.
L.A. Afanasyeva...
SIBAY
“SIBAY” (Sibay Canton), the Bashkir ethnic song, uzun kyuy. First recorded by S.G. Rybakov in 1894, published in his The Music and Songs of Ural Muslims with an Essay of Their Everyday Life book. Lyric and drama song. Presumably, composed by Sh.U. Sibayev, Canton Head. Lyrics have the form of a mo...
SHURALE
SHURALE is a demon in Bashkir mythology. It appears in bylichkas. It looks like a human-like creature with horns and long fingers with sharp (copper) nails or as a woman with ginger hair, hanging breasts and backward feet, or sometimes as a log or tree. It lives in forests, mountains, on the riverbanks....
SHUNKAROV Nigmat Dinakhmetovich
SHUNKAROV Nigmat Dinakhmetovich (1.1. 1931–4.3.1994), folklorist. Author of more than 50 publications devoted to Bashkir folk music, sesen storytellers, ritual folklore, etc. Sh. penned the versions of the epic “Alpamysha and Barsynhylu”, “Babsak and Kusyak”, “Zayatulyak and Khyukhylu”, “Kuzykurpyas...
SHUMBAY
SHUMBAY is a folklore character from Bashkir fairytales. It is a collective image of a cunning liar. The same-titled fairytale tells about S. He is a joker trying to appear like a crank: bay’s wife forbids her husband to employ the person named S., but S. makes the bay to break the prohibition by convincing...
SHULGAN
SHULGAN, is Bashkir mythological image. He is the elder son of Yanbirde and Yanbike in the “Ural-batyr” epic (see First ancestor), the brother antagonist of Ural-batyr. These people used to be immortal as were the Gods of upper world Samrau, Koyash (the Sun), Ay (the Moon), Khumay. There was a sacred...
SHULDYR ZHYT
“SHULDYR ZHYT” (“Merry evening”), Udmurt folklore ensemble of the inter-settlement cultural and leisure center of the village Novye Tatyshly in Tatyshly district of RB. Established in 1991. In 2000 it was titled “People’s”. The ensemble performs folklore compositions “Easter”, “Housewarming”, “Pomochi”,...
SHUGAYUPOV Vakil Shakirovich
SHUGAYUPOV Vakil Shakirovich (29.8.1936 in Selo Alkino, Salavatsky Raion of the BASSR – 28.6.2017 in Ufa, buried in his homeland) was a master of the national musical instruments production. Graduated from Kazan Art School in 1963. In 1976, Sh. was the first in the RB, who developed the technology of...
SHOTA RUSTAVELI GEORGIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER
SHOTA RUSTAVELI GEORGIAN ETHNIC CULTURAL CENTER, Bashkortostan, a NGO established in Ufa in 2010. A Georgian Sunday school has been working in Ufa since 2011. The center organizes Georgian cultural celebrations, Georgian movie shows, concerts with participation of Georgian performers. Participates...
SHITOVA Svetlana Nikolayevna
SHITOVA Svetlana Nikolayevna (b.12.2. 1936, Stalingrad), an ethnographer. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1968). Distinguished Worker of Culture of the RB (2003). After graduating from Moscow State University (1958) until 2006, she worked at the Institute of History, Language and Literature. Her...
SHEZHERE
SHEZHERE is a genealogical history of a tribe, clan, family. There are nominal S. (generational enumeration of the names of relatives in the male line from the founder of the clan or from the compiler) and narrative S. (which include information about the historical events, people, documentary texts,...
SHEVLE
“SHEVLE” (Summer lightning), Chuvash folk ensemble of the Suukchishma rural culture house, Karmaskaly district of RB. It was founded in 1967 by O.M. Vasilyeva. In 2003 it was titled “People’s”. The ensemble consists of 2 groups: adult and children. Adult members of the ensemble perform in Chuvash old...
SHAYTAN
SHAYTAN is an evil spirit in Bashkir mythology, relates to the jinn category. They can look like humans or other living creatures. According to certain beliefs, they live in yurts with their families, according to other beliefs – in caves in groups. They emit fire from their mouths while sleeping. They...
